Notes are a draft for AKAD DZIB
Akad dzib, dark writing, from the Quiché Maya
Creation myth:
The first world people were of mud but they melted
the second world people were mindless mannikins made of wood
the third world was flesh, pure evil
the fourth world was made maize dough
Cobá is the sun's center
Fill my mouth with food and jade beads.
The new year image of snakes
wearing robes embroidered with human footprints.
The four Atlantean gods held up the sky.
The cardinal points
North is white
black is west
yellow is South
red is east
and green is the center.
The sky was held up by four trees of different colors and species
with the green Ceiba, or silkcotton tree, at the center.
Each of the 13 layers of heaven had its own god,
the uppermost was Muan, a type of screech owl.
There were nine underworlds.
There was a flat earth on the back of a monstrous crocodile
resting in a pool filled with water lilies
and the sky was a double headed serpent.
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